Re: Add ftable.el to ELPA

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> [2021-08-02 09:46]:
> >>> "YF" == Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > ftable.el is a small package I wrote that fills (auto-layouts)
> > table.el style tables like `fill-paragraph’ does to paragraphs. It’s
> > really handy and I want to add it to ELPA. WDYT?
> 
> > GitHub page: https://github.com/casouri/ftable
> 
> Very interesting! It does not work for org tables though, at least not
> directly. 
> 
> I cloned your repository and see that you are acquainted with org mode,
> so any change to get that work with org tables? Yes I can convert it use
> your nice package and convert back.
> 
> BTW, I did not know about your package, wouldn't it be a good idea, as a
> starting point to have it in MELPA, and then later move it to ELPA?

ELPA packages are GNU's official Emacs packages and it is most
beneficial to provide useful packages in ELPA.

Author is free to apply package to MELPA but it is different set of
managers of MELPA than developers on GNU here. We could say it is
different group of people managing MELPA. As it is free software it
can be distributed from any channels or places.


Jean

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